Viroscope: Honing virus detection for the global plant trade

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English - March 18, 2024 11:00 - 10 minutes - 7.42 MB
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The destruction of plant crops from the propagation of plant pathogens, such as viruses, is a serious threat to global food security and human perpetuity. What's more, the world’s governing bodies lack the tools for standardised and accurate virus detection.

The CEO and Founder of Multiplex startup, Dr Bernardo Pollak, and fellow researchers based in Chile have developed and tested a unique diagnostic pipeline, Viroscope, and demonstrated its functionality through a web application, Viroscope.io.

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Read the original research: doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.967021